Position: User Experience Designer
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Although the position is based out of offices in Santa Clara, CA candidates should expect travel up to 25% of the time.

Responsibilities:
Discuss projects with clients to understand the business objectives, user needs, and define UX goals
Scope and plan user experience design activities for a project and track status and progress
Understand and incorporate complex technical and business requirements to create intuitive user-centered design solutions
Conduct early stage design and feature definition activities, collect and analyze user needs
Work with researchers to understand findings and incorporate into current design (assist with user research needs where applicable)
Create system and application concepts by defining information architecture, design patterns and paradigms, task flows, wireframes mockups and other design guidelines
Generate user interface design specifications, presentations, and other documentation needed to communicate interactions, design direction, and ideas
Present designs to diverse audiences both in person and in written reports
Work with multiple stakeholders during development process: clients, program and product managers, researchers, visual designers, and developers to assist in design activities and get support
Review work of software development teams and fellow designers
Identify potential design opportunities that might exist in other projects
Demonstrate user experience capabilities to customers and business partners
Must Have Qualifications:
Minimum of 1-3 years of hands-on design experience
Bachelors degree in Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Information Design, or related field
Portfolio of work that demonstrates interaction design experience
Experience using Adobe Creative Suite and rapid wire framing tools to creating documentation and prototypes
Passion for technology innovation and dedicated to keeping up with the latest industry trends.
Nice to Have Qualifications:
Masters Degree in related field
Expert level knowledge of HTML5/CSS3
Prior experience designing for mobile devices (cross platform and form factor)
Experience with visual design (creating graphic assets, redline documents, comps etc
Experience with conducting user research (in-lab usability testing, interviewing, running surveys etc